A co-founder of clothing firm Superdry has been jailed for eight years after being convicted of raping a woman after a night out drinking.

James Holder, 54, of Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , had gone back to the woman’s home, went to the toilet and then promptly fell asleep on her bed snoring.

The multimillionaire fashion boss then woke up and beckoned the woman, who was trying to sleep in her lounge, into the bedroom and raped her.

He denied rape, claiming the sexual activity was consensual, but was convicted by a unanimous jury at Cirencester Courthouse last week.

Recorder David Chidgey, sitting at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday, jailed Holder for eight years, describing the offence as “a despicable piece of sexual violence”.

The judge said: “It was about entitlement, it was about your sense of entitlement and your sense of doing what you wanted and your causal disregard for the victim’s absolute right to say what she wanted to do with her own body.”

Holder, who appeared by videolink from HMP Hewell…